"You shall have ten pounds for yourself if it comes off," said Phil Danks.
"That's not much."
"It is plenty, and you are not entitled to any. You can easily concoct some yarn to please the others."
"Very well, I'll see about it, but I'm going to make a night of it here, I don't often get the chance. I suppose you have no objections?"
"None at all," said Jack, as Amos appealed to him. "You are quite welcome to anything we have on board."
CHAPTER TENTH
THE TWO BLACK DIVERS
Amos Hooker went ashore taking with him several bottles of spirits with which to propitiate the pearl fishers. The men were down on the beach to meet him, and the sight of the bottles put them in a good humour; it was not long before they emptied two or three, and then commenced to talk freely.
"Spent a jolly night on board, Amos?" asked one man.